Center Activities

Passive Energy Dissipation for Seismic/Wind Design and Retrofit

NCEER and the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of
California/Berkeley are presenting a series of short courses entitled Passive Energy
Dissipation for Seismic/Wind Design and Retrofit. The 2?day course is designed to
provide practicing structural engineers and design professionals with a basic
understanding of the principles of energy dissipation devices and their design procedures.
Application to new structures and retrofit of existing structures will be addressed under
seismic or wind load. Case studies will be presented.

An optional half-day field trip will allow participants to visit sites where passive
energy dissipation devices are being tested or implemented. The course will be offered at
multiple sites at the following locations:

Los Angeles

August 22-24, 1996

Seattle

September 12-14, 1996

New York City

September 26-28, 1996

San Francisco

October 24-26, 1996

This short course series involves a number of individuals prominently involved in
NCEER's long-standing program in structural control and is the first in NCEER's
Professional and Continuing Education (PACE) program. Technical coordinators for the
program are T.T. Soong (NCEER) and Andrew Whittaker (EERC). Other participating
instructors include: Ian Aiken, Finley Charney, M.C. Constantinou, G.F. Dargush, James
Kelly, John Mander and Andrei Reinhorn. To register or for more information, contact
Andrea Dargush, Assistant Director for Research and Education, at NCEER, University at
Buffalo, 107 Red Jacket, Buffalo, NY 14261-0025; phone: (716) 645-3391; fax: (716)
645-3399; email: dargush@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Information on this short course and the PACE program may also be found on NCEER's web
site at: .